Puja Kumari with mother (Janki) and father (Ram Chandra Shah). This last week during the busy Christmas celebration, we sponsored two young Indian girls, age 16 and age 18. Puja Kumari is in class 11 and wants to study business. She lives in a very small one room “home” that is provided in between two building. Her family has an income of 12,000 rupees per month for seven people. She has 1 brother and 3 sisters. We provided her full tuition of 16,000 rupees (about 1300 Rupees per month) for her schooling to finish class 12. If she gets accepted to university afterward, we hope to continue to support her academically.
Her father and mother sell pakora and samosa for 5 Rupees each to put her through private education and to support the family. Her mother is not able to read and write, while her father has up to 5th grade education.
Her father and mother sell pakora and samosa for 5 Rupees each to put her through private education and to support the family. Her mother is not able to read and write, while her father has up to 5th grade education.
Karobi Mondal with mother, Gouri. The other young girl we sponsored is Karobi Mondal, 18 years old and has finished class 12. She will be taking her board exam in March and hopes to go to university. We will provide her with admission fee and tuition. The university she hopes to get in to is Saint Xavier. The admission cost is 35,000 Rupees and tuition is 36,000 Rupees per year. Basically, it is about 500 dollars for admission fee and 500 dollars for tuition. We hope to find the money to put her through university. Karobi’s family total income is 4200 Rupees per month. She is one of five children and will be the first in her family to go to university. Karobi’s family is very poor and she at one time lived on the streets. When she was very young, the Missionaries of Charities Sisters took her family in and cared for her while providing her father and mother with jobs to look after the Gandhi Center. Of course, the pay was not great, but they got a roof over their head and food to eat and Karobi got an education. Now she has an opportunity to go as far as wants. Karobi wants to study English and to become an English teacher. Let’s pray, we can make this dream possible for her.
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